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Exactly, Typescript still remains a, transpiler.

• fulafel 6y ago
  I don't think we can excuse it by citing the nature of source-to-source compilers. Other languages like Haxe, Elm, ReasonML, ClojureScript etc that target JS don't suffer from this.
  • searchableguy 6y ago
    Unsound type system was a sacrifice made for easy migration from javascript.
    • fulafel 6y ago
      That may be for the static type system but you could still check and signal an error at runtime instead of silently ignoring it.
    • Aeolun 6y ago
      And wildly successful at that. At least I can use typescript with my existing codebase. Rewriting everything in haxe isn’t exactly appealing.